On leadership
When I was a teenager at school, I remember reading a slogan on someone’s bag (probably a girl I was unrequitedly in love with) – I’d rather follow than lead someone… Continue Reading
Richard Pierce – author, poet, painter
When I was a teenager at school, I remember reading a slogan on someone’s bag (probably a girl I was unrequitedly in love with) – I’d rather follow than lead someone… Continue Reading
There is a certain irony that, less than a week after I gave up my #NewMusicFriday show on Radio Stradbroke, Annie Nightingale, the second-most seminal Radio One DJ in my… Continue Reading
On My Own as I read A Man Called Ove I stare at the emptiness that was you, And try to put you back together From bits of memory and… Continue Reading
This time last year, I was writing the final daily chapter of Aggie’s Art Of Happiness. I’d also just had a tooth out. I’d blogged every day of 2022, and felt… Continue Reading
Her hands, Bony, veiny, strong, Have the arts of resurrection In them, those multiple Crafts of pleasure And spirit. She only uses pleasure in the Here and now, to bring… Continue Reading
In her quieter moments, When her daily lovers are asleep Or she has cast them aside for The solitude she needs to cast Her spells on them and the World,… Continue Reading
The victims are unknown. No count. No names. No memorial. In the crossfire of politics, Everyone dies. The ricochet of careless words Cannot be calculated Nor predicted. The paths of… Continue Reading
‘Your fingers are white,’ she said. ‘It’s cold outside,’ he said, leaned back In the new chair on the wood floor She’d polished the day before. ‘An irrelevance.’ He didn’t… Continue Reading
He still doesn’t know, Thirty-four years later, what Made him pick up the phone That say to call the eyes he Dreamed about, those green Lakes of vanishing, and ask… Continue Reading
He looks in the mirror sometimes too seldom. Lost too much weight. Not strong enough. Flexes. Smiles. The universe says you are a Collection of chance atoms blown by the… Continue Reading